BIB_ID
210596
Accession number
MA 7601.15
Creator
Clay, Frederic, 1838-1889.
Display Date
1874 Apr. 20.
Credit line
Purchased, 1953.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.8 cm
Notes
Part of the Mary Millais album, a scrapbook of letters, clipped autographs, photographs, and engravings compiled by Mary Millais. Significant items in the album are described in individual records; see collection level record for more information.
Written on mourning stationery embossed with a seal and "Treasury, S.W."
Written on mourning stationery embossed with a seal and "Treasury, S.W."
Provenance
By descent to Sir Ralph Regnault Millais; purchased with the Millais papers in 1953.
Summary
Saying that his sister lost all her worldly goods in a fire, including three engravings of pictures by Millais, and asking where he may find other copies--"and (as I am just now as poor as a rat) if you can put me on to any method whereby I can get them cheap," etc.
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